ORDER RAPTORES. ISI 
379 a, Glaucidium gnoma californicum (SCcL.). 
California Pygmy Owl. 
Glaucidium californicum Scu. P. Z. 8. 1857, 4. 
Glaucidium gnoma californicum A, O. U. Check-List, rst Suppl. 
1889, 9. 
[B 60, part, C 329, part, R 409, part, C 484, part.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Pacific coast region, from California to British 
Columbia. 
379.1. Glaucidium hoskinsii (Brewsr.). 
Hoskins’s Pygmy Owl. 
Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii BREwst. Auk, V. April, 1888, 136. 
Glaucidium hoskinsii A. O. U. Check-List, 1st Suppl. 1889, 9. 
[B—, C—, R—, C—] 
Geoc. Dist.— Lower California. 
380. Glaucidium phalzenoides (Daup.). 
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. 
Strix phalenoides Dauv. Traité d’Orn. II. 1800, 206. 
Glaucidium phalenoides Cas. J. f. O. 1869, 208. 
[B —, C 330, R 410, C 485.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Southern border of the United States, from Texas 
to Arizona, south to southern Brazil. 
Genus MICROPALLAS CouvEs. 
Micropallas Cours, Auk, VI. Jan. 1889, 71. Type, Athene 
whitneyt COOPER. 
381. Micropallas whitneyi (Cooper). 
Elf Owl. 
Athene whitneyt Cooper, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1861, 118. 
Micropallas whitneyt SENNETT, Auk, VI. July, 1889, 276. 
[B —, C 331, R 411, C 486.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Southern and Lower California, Arizona, New 
Mexico, and southern Texas, south to Puebla, Mexico. 
